City and Cook County officials say pre-Election Day voting is likely to pass the 2014 level but will lag figures set in the 2016 presidential cycle.

Early and mail voting so far is way, way above the level of a typical off-year election in the Chicago area. But whether it will continue that way—and what this means for the candidates—still is uncertain.

In suburban Cook County, according to Count Clerk David Orr’s office, 160,221 people so far had voted as of 12:26 p.m. today. With five days yet to go, the total is past the 128,011 who cast early ballots in the 2014 off-year elections. But the figure seems unlikely to hit the final 360,383 mark reached in the 2016 presidential election, when turnout almost always is especially high.

What’s really new this time according to Orr’s office is how many people are voting by mail—on top of the in-person early votes referenced above.

As of today, Orr’s office had received 110,868 applications for mail ballots, with 54,304 already returned. Only 51,237 voted by mail in all of 2014, and Orr’s office says the final mail total this year is likely to exceed the final 2016 figure of 87,987.

The story is similar in Chicago proper: Numbers are way up from 2014, especially mail ballots, but they’ll likely end up being short of the presidential cycle in 2016.

According to Board of Elections spokesman Jim Allen, 118,544 persons had cast early ballots as of yesterday, compared to 73,127 at this point in 2014, and 191,808 with six days to go in 2016. But mail voting is soaring even compared to 2016, with 116,124 applications for mail ballots so far, compared to final figures of 40,869 in 2014 and 102,896 in 2016. So far, 48,174 of those ballots of been returned.

Allen says he sees signs that younger people are voting in bigger numbers relative to seniors, which probably would be good for Democratic contenders. But again, until all the figures are in—including those on Nov. 6—it’s really hard to say.

I’m hoping to get figures from DuPage County, too, but the Election Commission has not yet returned my call.

Update—I now have the numbers from DuPage, and they are, if anything, even peppier than they are to the east.

As of last evening, 57,975 people had voted early. That’s more than the final figure of 52,000 in 2014, and somewhat over half the 2016 final total of 108,000. The number is growing quickly, according to the election commission, and may end up approaching the 2016 figure, which would be remarkable.

As for mail ballots, 19,922 have been returned so far. There were only about 7,000 four years ago, and 25,000 in 2016.